Help With Spam/Chat System

ID:263689
 
Aug 1 2007, 7:19 am
Okay i made this code and how would i be able to add a retain amount of characters? every code i can think of says i have an error

var
    spam_limit = 15
    spam_time = 20 // This makes sure you can't spam

mob/verb/OOC(text as text)
    set category = "Communications"
//  text = Cheatcode(src, text)
    if(!text) return
    if(spoken >= spam_limit)
        usr << "<b><Font Color = Red>Shut Up Spamer</font>"
        return 0
    world << "<B>[usr] OOC</B>: [text]"
    usr.spoken += 1


mob/verb/Say(text as text)
    set category = "Communications"
//  text = Cheatcode(src, text)
    if(!text) return
    if(spoken >= spam_limit)
        usr << "<b><Font Color = Red>Shut Up Spamer</font>"
        return 0
    view() << "[usr] Says: [text]"
    usr.spoken += 1








//Spam Guard

mob
    var/spoken = 0
    proc/Spoken(mob/M,N as num)
        if(M.spoken >= spam_limit)
            usr << "<b><Font Color = Red>SHUT UP</font>"

    proc/Spam_Less()
        spoken = max(0,spoken-1)
        spawn(spam_time) Spam_Less()
mob
    New()
        ..()
        spawn(spam_time) Spam_Less()

//Debugging
//mob/Stat()
//  statpanel("Spammy")
//  stat("Current_Spam",usr.spoken)


Please Help me
Aug 4 2007, 1:19 am
You need to elaborate. "how would I be able to add a certain amount of characters" doesn't give us enough information to help you, and by characters do you mean keyboard chars or like player characters?
Aug 4 2007, 6:55 pm
Instead of if(!text) you might want to try something a little trickier. Because all a user has to do is [space][enter] and it'll spam up the place.

You could use if(!ckey(text)) then it would minimise spam. But users would be pissed off because smilies like :) wouldn't be displayed.

My favourite method is removing spaces from text. if(!RemoveSpace(text)) return.
Make a proc which removes spaces from the text and use it. Unless others have a better suggestion.